THE
GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST
ACCORDING TO JOHN CHAPTER
NINETEEN | Steve
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John
19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
2 And the soldiers
platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple
robe,
3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.
4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring
him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.
5 Then came
Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith
unto them, Behold the man!
6 When the chief priests therefore and officers
saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them,
Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.
7 The Jews answered
him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the
Son of God.
8 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;
9 And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art
thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.
10 Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest
thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have
power to release thee?
11 Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all
against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered
me unto thee hath the greater sin.
12 And from thenceforth Pilate sought to
release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art
not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.
13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat
down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew,
Gabbatha.
14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth
hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!
15 But they cried out,
Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify
your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
16 Then
delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and
led him away.
17 And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the
place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:
18 Where they crucified
him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.
19
And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS
OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.
20 This title then read many of the Jews:
for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written
in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.
21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews
to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the
Jews.
22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
23 Then
the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four
parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam,
woven from the top throughout.
24 They said therefore among themselves, Let
us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might
be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture
they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
25 Now there
stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife
of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and
the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold
thy son!
27 Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that
hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
28 After this, Jesus knowing
that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled,
saith, I thirst.
29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled
a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
30
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he
bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
31 The Jews therefore, because it was
the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath
day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might
be broken, and that they might be taken away.
32 Then came the soldiers, and
brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
33
But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not
his legs:
34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith
came there out blood and water.
35 And he that saw it bare record, and his
record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
36
For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of
him shall not be broken.
37 And again another scripture saith, They shall
look on him whom they pierced.
38 And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being
a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he
might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore,
and took the body of Jesus.
39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the
first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about
an hundred pound weight.
40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it
in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
41
Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden
a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
42 There laid they Jesus
therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at
hand. __________________________________
Remember
the key verse of John:
John
20:31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ,
the
Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
Questions
to help you decide if you believe the Gospel in John Chapter Nineteen Did
Jesus Christ have to die in your place on the cross? Do you believe you are a
sinner with no way to avoid hell without the death of Jesus in your place? But,
perhaps you have had problems with doubting your salvation. Perhaps some priest,
preacher, or some meddling do-gooder, has been troubling you by trying to warp
your thinking to believe that you can sin your way out of the love of Jesus Christ.
Answer this question: Would God the Son go through all this suffering and torment
at the hands of evil men to buy your eternal soul, only to lose it again? Here
is a precious verse from one of the Apostle Paul's letters to one of the churches:
2
Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that
we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
And,
Jesus died for all your sin, even the sins you will commit right up to the day
you die:
1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with
another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. Bible
Grammar Lesson: That
"...eth" ending on the verb "cleanseth" was used by the translators
of the English Bible long ago to show something in the original Greek which is
hard to show in English. The verb "cleanseth" is in the "present
continuous tense." That is a tense not found in English. "Cleanseth,"
the way the Bible says it, means that God cleans away your sin now, and he keeps
on cleaning away your sin until you die. What does that mean? It means that God
has NO intention of letting you sin your way out of his hands and back into hell.
He just will not let it happen. Is that Good News?
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